This 12-week rotation introduces students to the basic principles of surgery. Students rotate with the surgical teams at various hospitals that are affiliated to our medical school. During the rotations, students are exposed to medical encounters with patients with common surgical problems. The course allows students to practice history taking relevant to surgical disorders as well as performing focused relevant physical examination needed to assess patients with surgical problems. The pre-operative and postoperative evaluation and management of surgical diseases are covered. In addition, students, during this rotation, attend many operations that held in surgical theaters in order to evaluate and develop the basic surgical skills for them which comes in parallel with doing night shifts during this rotation.
